fuel price cycles 2025-09-20T21:50:44Z
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The needle dipped below empty as rain lashed against my windshield somewhere between Gosford and Newcastle. That familiar panic tightened my chest - not just about running dry on this desolate stretch of Pacific Highway, but the certain robbery awaiting at the next petrol station. I remembered last month's disaster: pulling into a servo near Wyong just as they flipped their price board, watching unleaded jump 30 cents in the time it took to unbuckle my seatbelt. My knuckles went white gripping t